Women's studies

Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of Women’s Rights during the French Revolution. Within this publishing, her essay, “Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society” focuses on the inequality of education for women. The lack of education causes them to be placed into menial jobs, which do not recognize their full potential. Throughout the essay, she addresses the roles women should seek to obtain. Wollstonecraft lived by her words, as she…

necessary precisely because women constitute the most relevant oppressed group.”(Cattier) The use of the epistemological model prompts the success of the masculine group, which is why women’s critiques of this model are seen as attack to masculinity. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy, which focus on the understand or study of human knowledge. Historical, epistemology was used to support the idea that males, especially white males, were above all other human beings. Education was only…

The New Woman movement in the 19th century was a movement started by women in the 1800s who wanted the freedom to have education, choose when and if they wanted to get married, if they wanted to use birth control or become sexually active without the intent to procreate. These women also wanted the freedom to take on careers and wear less restricting clothing that allowed them the freedom to be more active. In the 19th century America, there was certain expectations put on women both inside and…

Helen’s contributions was looking at environment and social influences in a person’s upbringing to show how it plays a role in intelligence and personality. “She debunked the idea that women's intelligence differed from men's. She also formulated the idea of sex-role stereotyping, and was convinced that the minor differences she found were due to differences in upbringing, not biology” (Muse).Out of the women discussed she faced the least…

place ridden with disease and not so brilliant people, because they were of a different race and social sphere. This disease although much alike with the diseases found in core countries, Europeans created a whole branch of medicine dedicated to the study of the tropics mostly periphery areas. The inventor of this branch of medicine was Patrick Manson, thus the name fore the branch is called Mansonian Tropical Medicine. He says that all the students learning medicine should learn about the…

the New Zealand chapter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement (the WCTU). The WCTU is an international organisation made to campaign for the prohibition of liquor, and a life free from the vices of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Sheppard, and the WCTU, aimed to promote temperance, and realised that if women could vote temperance would be more easily achieved, because many women were supportive or not opposed to temperance. Sheppard’s interests in women’s suffrage quickly became deep,…

As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role…

that there are still issues regarding gender bias now. However, the need for affirmative action is beginning to expire. Not only is affirmative action an outdated concept, but it is not the progressive movement that it is disguised as. As far as women’s rights have come in one hundred years, this “movement” could be considered a setback. Linda Bernardi offers that what women believe to be discrimination in their workplace could be misconstrued as discrimination. After all, these concepts could…

Having gone through a few WGS classes already, I thought I pretty much had a good grasp on gender theory. Obviously there would be more complex theories I hadn’t heard of yet, but I thought I had a decent understanding of the basics, and that the novels and information presented in this course would simply expand upon that. After the first few days of classes, I realized how little I had already known. I’d learned about intersectionality, and the male gaze, and invisible privilege, but that was…

Classical female rhetoricians needed to utilise several rhetorical strategies in order to navigate the misogynistic landscape of past societies and to have their arguments heard. Logos, pathos, and ethos can be found within Hortensia, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan’s works as tools to allow them to speak and record their thoughts during a period where women were forbidden to do so, and subsequently make lasting impacts on society’s view of women. Hortensia uses logos in her “Speech…